Natalie Haynes stands up for the classics

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Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics

Comedy: Standup

Natalie Haynes creates stand-up routines about figures from ancient Greece and Rome.

Natalie Haynes takes a fresh look at the ancient world, creating stand-up routines about figures from ancient Greece and Rome.

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Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics: Series 5: Roman British Women: Claudia Severa.

Roman British Women: Claudia Severa.

Series 5

BBC Radio 4 - Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics, Series 5, Roman British Women: Claudia Severa.

Natalie Haynes on Claudia Severa, with guests Llewelyn Morgan and Paul Roberts.

Natalie Haynes tells the stories of Claudia Severa and other Roman-British women, with guests Professor Llewelyn Morgan and archaeologist Dr Paul Roberts.

Natalie Haynes tells the stories of the handful of Roman-British women whose traces stay with us: a fierce queen, a slave woman freed for love, the so-called 'Ivory Bangle Lady' and Claudia Severa, whose invitation to her friend to her birthday party some two thousand years ago is one of the greatest historical treasures of Roman Britain.  

Wooden tablets, ivory (and jet) bangles and a romantic gravestone inscription from South Shields.  Natalie is joined by guests Professor Llewelyn Morgan and archaeologist Dr Paul Roberts.

Stand up comedy, ancient details and a lot of fascinating gossip from a couple of thousand years ago.

Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery

Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics: Series 5

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Natalie Haynes with more stand-up routines about figures from ancient Greece and Rome.

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